Library Resources for Women's Studies

Women of the Third World

Women of the Middle East: Theme of Women's Herstory Month (2002)

Books

Women in the Middle East HQ1784 .W66 1987	Social history of women and gender in the modern Middle East HQ1726.5 .S63 1999
Middle Eastern Muslim women speak HQ1170 .M53 1977	Women and power in the Middle East HQ1726.5 .W659 2001
Women in Middle Eastern history : shifting boundaries in sex and gender HQ1726.5 .W66 1992	Women in the Middle East and North Africa : restoring women to history HQ1726.5 .N37 1999
Organizing women : formal and informal women's groups in the Middle East HQ1991.9 .O74 1997	Images of women : the portrayal of women in photography of the Middle East, 1860-1950 HQ1726.5 .G73 1988
Identity politics and women : cultural reassertions and feminisms in international perspective HQ1233 .I34 1994	Modernizing women : gender and social change in the Middle East HQ1726.5 .M64 1993
Reconstructing gender in the Middle East : tradition, identity, and power HQ1726.5 .R43 1994	Remaking women : feminism and modernity in the Middle East HQ1726.5 .R45 1998
The hidden face of Eve : women in the Arab world HQ1784 .S18	The house of obedience : women in Arab society HQ1170 .M55413
Women and gender in Islam : historical roots of a modern debate HQ1784 .A67 1992	Beyond the veil : male-female dynamics in modern Muslim society HQ1170 .M46 1987
Feminism and Islamic fundamentalism : the limits of postmodern analysis HQ1170 .M64 1999	Women and Islamization : contemporary dimensions of discourse on gender relations HQ1170 .W565 1998
Nine parts of desire : the hidden world of Islamic women HQ1170 .B76 1995	Arab women : old boundaries, new frontiers HQ1784 .A72 1993

Videos

Women and Islam	VTC 2332
The New cold war?	VTC 2981
A Veiled revolution	VTC 434
The Born-again Muslims	VTC 2979
Morocco, body and soul	VTC#1122

Internet Resources

Understanding Islam, Islamism, and Islamic Feminism  by Margot Badran Journal of Women's History 13.1 (2001) 47-52

Book Review: Islam and Democracy  by Ibrahim A. Karawan Journal of Democracy 8.4 (1997) 170-173

Islam and Equality: Debating the Future of Women's and Minority Rights in the Middle East and North Africa by Renee G. Scherlen, NWSA Journal 13.3 (2001) 232-237

Gender, Feminism, and Attitudes Toward International Conflict: Exploring Relationships With Survey Data From The Middle East  by Mark Tessler and Ina Warriner World Politics 49.2 (1997) 250-281.

Windows of faith : Muslim women scholar-activists in North America edited by Gisela Webb 2000

Western representations of the Muslim woman : from termagant to odalisque  by Mohja Kahf 1999

Women in the Third World : a reference handbook  by Karen L. Kinnear 1007

(the above resources require CSUSM connection)

Dialogues of the present: contemporary Arab women's art  includes portraits of some artists and an online gallery of artistic works.

Afghan women under the tyranny of the Fundamentalists ( Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA))

Women in the Arab World by Al-bab.com provides links to books, articles and Web sites on Arabic women.

Muslim Women's League provides a forum for issues relating to Muslim women.

These are just sample library sources on women of the Middle East.  Come to the library and see more of them.  Please also note that during the Women's Herstory Month (March, 2002) many books of the theme will be on display in the library

Hua Yi
Social Science Librarian
California State University, San Marcos
Spring, 2002